Quick questions

[jesse59672 10+ year member]

I am planning on replacing and installing the two door speakers in my truck with an amp, and I want to go ahead and start working on it tomorrow. Should I buy two sets of RCAs since the headunit has front and rear pre-outs? Or is it possible to just run the front pre-out to the amp and fade to the front on the hu? I am just concerned about the speakers not receiving the full sound.

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[06goat 10+ year member]

One set of rcas should be fine. If you were to fade to the front without having anything in the rear I dont think it would make a difference. Fade doesnt make one louder, it just (drawing a blank) makes the rear quieter, if im not mistaken

 

[jesse59672 10+ year member]

Yeah that's what I'm wondering. Would the amp/speakers be receiving all of the sound, or just the 'front.' Or better yet would you want just two speakers playing front and rear sounds at the same time? Not that it would make much of a difference, but in some cases there are sounds that are lost in songs like ambient background noises and sound effects that are played through in the 'rear.'

I haven't installed in years and never in a truck before.

 

[akheathen Premium Member]

well, if all you plan on having for mids is the 2 speakers, then just the 2 front channels would be fine. if you plan on going 4 spekers, or putting a sub in, in the future, then you might want to put the 2 runs in at the same time, and leave the extra set taped off somewhere safe. when it comes to fading, and ballancing, it simply turns one or the other down, rater than adding volume. your audio is going to be 2channel anyways, so you will not loose anything that the rear would be playing. depending on your head unit, later, you may be able to run the rear channels as sub out, and the front as mid/high. for now, either is capable of full-range, identically. unless you are referring to multimedia systems that have surround sound processing for movies, the only effect you would be seeing with the "back-ground effects and noises" would be the fact that most factory full-range speakers have the larger speakers in the rear, like 6x9's run infinate baffle to the trunk, and the fronts generally don't have as low of a frequency response, so you can hear more bass-notes, or less mid, etc. either way, it is a difference in individual speaker properties, not the signal they are getting